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In the Create Library Item task → “Save as” a remember Function for the last chosen Path to save the Item ... or a default path what is the same like the settings in the Application Preferences.Right now you have to navigate again and again for every item what you will save in the same directory. If you have to save 20 items - it sacks

Also would it be nice for an easy “Clean up” to have the possibility to delete items directly in the Library Browser window.Right now you have to use extern Programs like the Windows explorer to move or delete items.

It would appear that when QCAD imports a DXF, it reorders the layers into alphabetical order (at least when importing R2011). I have not tested this extensively but on other programs, the order is different from alphabetical. Ideally the operator should be given a choice to order the layers as exported (assuming the DXF format remembers that) or alphabetical. This is because a drawing may have a certain stack up of layers (like a printed circuit board) and then alphabetic ordering is not useful nor desired.

To improve useability/efficiency I would like to propose the following changes/additions to the layer list:

1) Combining the show and hide button into one button.

Clicking once will hide all layers, clicking again will show them all again.

2) A “lock/unlock” button.

Clicking once will lock all layers, clicking again will unlock them all again.

Regarding the icons I suggest that instead of show both the black and grey version of the eye/lock, you could switch between them depending on the state the switch-button is in. Also the mouse-over-text could/should change with the state.

In the same way as the Pen tool has a drop down menu, would it be possible to have an option to configure the layer list in the same way. I am trying to create a bit more drawing space and it would be good if I could dock the layer list in the top of my window and only take up a single row space!

If I move something and it went wrong I can easily undo the last move and start over without the need of a re-selection.If I copy something and it went wrong I can undo the last copy but I have to re-select everything again.

It would be nice to keep the once chosen selection in both “undo” situation!

There is an issue importing from Autocad:lines and quotes (both arrows and text) appear too much big (see attachment).I can fix quotes modifying dimensions in “current drawing preferences”, but lines are still too thick.Autocad’s dxf are opened with right line thickness but wrong quotes.Furthermore, Autocad opens Qcad’s dxf files showing wrong quotes.

It would be very useful to have the same possibility for Isometric projection like the Paste tool etc.. An option which ask me to put a new Isometric projection on the current layer is right now missing. If I like to have this new Isometric Projection on a different layer I have to reselect the projection and move it to that layer. That is plain inconvenient.

I’m not sure whether this has been added or suggested already. It would be great to have a built in QCAD table tool for producing cutting lists or bill of materials etc. A dedicated table tool would be a real boost to QCAD Pro ;)

With that new feature the information tool shows the absolute paper units in the print preview mode instead of drawing units. So you can determine the exact size of an entity in the printout without manual calculating with the drawing units and the scale factor.

It would be nice if the Info Tool / Add Measurement to drawing option would use the same settings like the “Dimension settings” for Font and Text height. It’s a kind of similar function in a drawing and should have the same style. Maybe with an on/off switch?

As a typical command line draftsman (still using acad10 for dos, since microsoft doesn’t supoort Win NT anymore),I noticed a severe lack on command line acces in QCAD.

For example I find the icon and pixel selecting methods within qcad very confusing and rude.

With the normal cad Select command I can select exactly what en how I want it.

I intend not to be rude, but I find my drawing screen littered all over with all kind of very specialist menu’s,tools and options. Sorry, I just want to make a drawing at the natural intuitive way, as with a pencil.So I use command line Commands, such as Move, Copy, Change, Select, a.s.o.For a ‘Command scripting’ user (-batching is a different tool!-),it seems to me logical these basic commands should be accessable.

Right now, if I want to fill an area with a hatch pattern, I have to select all the enclosing objects (lines, arcs) and then I can select the hatch tool. That can be under some circumstances a tedious task.To illustrate this, I created a simple example (see Attachment 1: Hatching.png).

Step 1: Create a rectangle.Step 2: Draw four vertical lines.Step 3: Select the four lines surrounding the first area. –> Problem! The horizontal lines are too long.Step 4: Divide the long horizontal lines of the rectangle where the vertical lines touch. Now the lines surrounding the three areas can be selected.Step 5: Hatch the selection. Done.

Dear Sir,I have noticed that in QCAD 3 rc4 it is not possible to open and edit font files.This feature exists in version 2.2 and is indispensable to people using not common languages.For example the unicode font does not have all greek characters, so I have added a few of the missing ones by editing the unicode.cxf font with version 2.2.I kindly ask the designers to consider enabling this capability again.Thank you!